Click to enlarge. Italians in Italy.
Will ledge dancing garner more acceptance from older skateboard snobs now that Gino is doing it or is everyone just going to do the whole “It’s cool if Gino does it” thing?
Winter Video Round-Up: Shake Junt, Nike SB & Sk8Mafia
December 15th, 2011 | 4:08 pm | Reviews | 5 Comments
Two white cups and I got that drink, could be purple and could be pink…
(Just realized the phrase “Winter Video Round-Up” originates from Boil the Ocean, so shout out to that guy.)
It will be snowing in a few weeks, and the average length of a skate video in 2011 is about as long as the original cut of Once Upon a Time in America. So, if you didn’t watch a lot of full videos this year, you’re about to have an opportune time to do so. (Just kidding, we’ll all probably just go to the bar, right?) Here are three that came out in the past few weeks, and will likely be the last major releases until the spring.
Shake Junt — Chickenbonenowison
Shake Junt is the only company with the luxury of being able to make a digestible, 68-minute video. They are self-aware enough to acknowledge their position as mainstream skateboarding’s last remaining purveyor of ignorance and hi-jinx. Their latest can thus justify straying away from the skate video’s natural function of being watched as motivation prior to actual skating, because the company’s videos serve as a superior post-session viewing experience. While watching Chickenbonenowison, thoughts of beer and similar intoxicants are as, if not more, prevalent as thoughts of nollie flips, which is why it was made to be viewed as an interlude between the day’s skate session and the night’s party-related activities (hopefully with a thirty pack and a group of friends.)
While we solved the question of why this video would allow itself to run so long, several other questions remain. For instance: It’s good to know that Antwuan Dixon and Shawn Powers have the same “Song of the Year 2011″ vote, but why on earth does he own a Drake shirt? How responsible was QS in the video’s inclusion of a lighter, more rap-oriented Andrew Reynolds and Bryan Herman shared part, given that we fixed the two that originally appeared in Stay Gold? And finally, could Steve Nash possibly be Bryan Herman’s father?
Filed Under: Reviews | Tags: Chickenbonenowison Video Review, Nike SB, Nike SB Chronicles Video Review, Shake Junt, Sk8 Mafia, The Sk8Mafia Video Video Review, Video Reviews
Nike SB Chronicles NYC Premiere Info
November 30th, 2011 | 9:50 am | Daily News | 6 Comments
Nike is doing an online premiere for SB Chronicles this Saturday (December 3rd) at 6:30 P.M. If you prefer a more traditional video premiere environment (i.e. you’d rather watch it projected on a huge screen instead of a 13″ laptop), Bowery Stadium is hosting a premiere on the same day at 7 P.M. Stadium is located at 276 Bowery, right at the southwest intersection of Houston Street, next to Pulino’s. Take the F to Second Avenue and it’s half-a-block away. The video features Youness Amrani, Chet Childress, Clark Hassler, Stefan Janoski, Lewis Marnell, Daniel Shimizu, Grant Taylor (so that Thrasher S.O.T.Y. part was basically throwaway?), and Wieger Van Wageningen. You can read up on the video and watch the two trailers here.
In anticipation of the video, here is a compilation of Youness’ footage from our summer 2010 project with SB. Knowing him, he’d probably say all of this footage sucks. It doesn’t. (Though it is a notch or two below tricks like this on the intensity scale.) And that tail-less C.I.A. line is maybe the best thing to ever be in a Quartersnacks clip, short of Alex Mosley using the lobby of the Met Life building as runway to ollie a double-set. Having seen a lot of great skateboarders skate in person, Youness is near the top of the list in terms of people that make tricks look deceptively easy. See below. His part should be an entertaining one.
Fakeass Hurricane, yo!
September 3rd, 2010 | 2:37 pm | Daily News | 9 Comments
“You’re posting DGK ads now? How does this tie in? Is this the CORPORATE TAKEOVER? Are you getting checks from Kayo?!” No, it’s just that this guy is up there with Steve Nash and John Stockton as one of the finest white athletes of the modern era.
Friday links…
“The National Hurricane Center is now predicting that Earl, which went from a Category 4 hurricane with wind speeds of 145 mph to a Category 2 storm with winds of 105 mph Thursday, will likely be a Category 1 hurricane with winds in the 80-mph range by the time it passes Long Island late Friday about 150 miles to the east.” Basically, we’re good.
The Pre-2k DVD is available at Supreme, Boundless in Brooklyn, Poets in Long Island, FTC, and 2189 in Erie, PA. The final runtime clocks in at around an hour. QS review of the video here.
Nike posted a clip from Berlin that involves King Youness demonstrating that doing a 5-0 360 flip out for him is sort of like doing a backside tailslide for anyone else equipped with a lesser degree of skill.
48 Blocks did an interview with Steven Cales. The Chrome Ball Incident did an interview with Jason Dill. Those two sites account for a sizable portion of the skateboard-related multimedia world worth checking on a daily basis, so you should have already read them by now.
Some Billy Waldman outtakes from long, long time ago. New York used to have a lot of good bank spots.
A fourteen-year-old kickflip front boarded the Amsterdam Rail. But age doesn’t really matter anymore.
Taj Cam 12th and A episode featuring Jason Dill and 50 fighting.
The ledges at the 101 Park Avenue building on 40th Street and Park Avenue, most importantly used for the exterior shots of Kruger Industrial Smoothing, are no longer skateable, due to the building installing planters on top of all the lower level ledges. It was never the best spot, but it was the closest thing midtown had to California-style stadium ledges. Minus the whole grinding part.
The Terminator Rail has scaffolding all around it, making it temporarily unskateable. Hopefully, this has no bearing on your lifestyle whatsoever, but a heads up nonetheless if your life involves taking people around to handrails.
Why doesn’t anyone skate this ledge on 46th Street? It seems like someone should have done an ollie over to lipslide or a nosegrind through the keyhole by now. The ground isn’t the best, but it is wholly workable. There are some things to wallie on the other side too. You don’t get kicked out that quick either.
If you miss the glory days of New York rap, when Maino wasn’t the only close thing to rapper getting burn from this city, this 74-minute Roc-a-fella mix spanning from 1998 to 2004 is worth a download.
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Filed Under: Daily News | Tags: 101 Park Avenue, 12th & A, 48 Blocks, Berlin, Billy Waldman, Chrome Ball Incident, Hurricane Earl, Jason Dill, Josh Kalis, Knobbings, Monday Links, Nike SB, Pre-2k, Quote of the Week, Steven Cales, Supreme, Terminator Rail, The QS Rap Desk, Youness Amrani
This. Right here. Is my. New Lambo.
August 17th, 2010 | 3:20 pm | Footage | 15 Comments
Ishod Wair – Backside Noseblunt at the World Famous Lenox Ledges – Photo by Zach Malfa-Kowalski
After the rainy Sunday, and these guys having a California-esque experience of driving an hour to a handrail, only to get kicked out in ten minutes, we had one last day before the ways of real professional skateboarding intervene, and demos, events, etc. all take priority. So, Monday was the last day of straight skating around the city, and it was unfortunately marred by indecisive rain clouds, and the fact that it was “a fake nice day” — which is a seemingly favorable temperature that masks the insane level of humidity.
Things got started early at Lenox Ledges, where random crowds of EA Skate fans would intrusively shout their favorite celebrity’s name in the middle of trying a trick, probably because they need to fill the void of rarely seeing Cam’s purple Range Rover up there anymore. The session slowly moved up to the dirty, broken glass ridden, over-the-ledge-down-the-three-block spot that Caswell Berry and Jimmy McDonald skated a few years back, and ended at the newly blown-out (thanks, Transworld, or the QS spots section) Fort Greene Park Monument, where there were three pro teams, five filmers, two photographers, and about twenty people skating right before gigantic rain drops started falling from the sky. Every summer (at least until 12th and A came around), has that one over-blown spot that everyone goes to. For 2010 its looks like the Monument wins the honor. Either that, or it’s just that half of the people in the skateboarding industry are here for Red Bull’s Manny Mania, and can’t exactly skate any of the other things we call “manual pads” in the city too easily.
If you spend a week taking people that are accustomed to Barcelona flatground and Southern California schoolyard asphalt around to New York spots that you think they might like, or be able to skate, only to have the sentiments of the group fall in favor of repeatedly venturing out to the next location, you will slowly start to realize that Jake Johnson is even more of an amazing skateboarder than you previously thought. If you don’t know what that means, or how that’s relevant, then Alien, Quiksilver, Gravis, or Brengar need to arrange for and start raking in the profits from a Jake Johnson reality bus tour. With skate video sales drastically plummeting, reality tours might be the next big money maker for the skate media world.
Daily clip, and more photos embedded below, and it features a Tufty cameo! That’s it for the daily clips, but more info on the rest later.
Filed Under: Footage | Tags: Brooklyn, Danny Lebron, Hunter Muraira, Ishod Wair, Nike SB, Paul Rodriguez, QS+SB, Quartersnacks for Nike SB, Theotis Beasley, Tyler Tufty, Uptown Manhattan, Youness Amrani
